Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miranda Hart

I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

John Ruskin

The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

Aksel is very strong but the season is very long. We will see.

Philip Sidney

Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.

Philip Roth

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

Paulo Coelho

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

Paulo Coelho

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

Marisha Pessl

I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.

Marisha Pessl

It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning at everybody's surface. (In the more dangerous cases, it created a lasting whirlpool in which the strongest swimmers could drown.)

Marianne Moore

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

Meghan O'Rourke

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

John Owen

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.

John Milton

So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

John Milton

Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

Nils-Axel Morner

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.

Nils-Axel Morner

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

Mitch Albom

Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.

Mike Tyson

I'm going to gut you like a fish.

Miguel de Cervantes

I have other fish to fry.

Miguel de Cervantes

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.

Miguel de Cervantes

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

John Hench

I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"

John Entwistle

I deep sea fish a lot.

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

Frank Yerby

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

Frank Gaffney

Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

Frank Gaffney

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

George Crabbe

A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.

John Burroughs

The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the shadows. All his approaches are gentle and indirect. He times himself to the meandering, soliloquizing stream; he addresses himself to it as a lover to his mistress; he woos it and stays with it till he knows its hidden secrets. Where it deepens his purpose deepens; where it is shallow he is indifferent. He knows how to interpret its every glance and dimple; its beauty haunts him for days.

Jim Steinman

The sea is whipping the skyThe sky is whipping the seaYou can hide away forever from the stormBut you'll never hide away from me.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

The woods are never solitary– they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unsharable sorrow which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce it’s infinite mystery– we may only wander, awed and spell-bound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only– a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.